Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Fluid Mechanics is 9. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
FLM volume 944 Cover and Front matter162
Experimental investigations of linear and nonlinear periodic travelling waves in a viscous fluid conduit134
Averaging theory for heat transfer in circular hydraulic jumps with a separation bubble106
FLM volume 954 Cover and Front matter89
Wave- and potential-driven instabilities in orbital pilot-wave dynamics88
Choking the flow in soft Hele-Shaw cells: the role of elastomer geometry87
Numerical simulations of spatiotemporal instabilities in discontinuous shear-thickening fluids82
FLM volume 990 Cover and Front matter73
Breakage dynamics and scaling of wet aggregates of rigid particles70
A weakly nonlinear amplitude equation approach to the bypass transition in the two-dimensional Lamb–Oseen vortex69
Principle of fundamental resonance in hypersonic boundary layers: an asymptotic viewpoint67
Effects of settling on inertial particle slip velocity statistics in wall-bounded flows65
Mean resolvent operator of a statistically steady flow63
Improved assessment of the statistical stability of turbulent flows using extended Orr–Sommerfeld stability analysis63
Turbulent drag reduction with streamwise-travelling waves in the compressible regime61
Viscosity stratification instability in two-layer, generalised Couette–Poiseuille flow61
A diffuse-interface Marangoni instability60
Evaporation of non-circular droplets59
Linear dynamics of over-expanded annular supersonic jets59
A unified theoretical model for spatiotemporal development of Rayleigh–Taylor and Richtmyer–Meshkov fingers56
Steady periodic waves over a planar seabed: a global characterization54
Compressibility effects on statistics and coherent structures of compressible turbulent mixing layers54
A linear-elastic–nonlinear-swelling theory for hydrogels. Part 2. Displacement formulation52
Attachment-line, cross-flow and Tollmien–Schlichting instabilities on swept ONERA-D and Joukowski airfoils51
Stochastic dynamics of vortex-acoustic lock-in: effects of coloured, multiplicative noise51
FLM volume 1025 Cover and Front matter51
On the analytic explanation of experiments where turbulence vanishes in pipe flow50
Hyperbolic profile of free-surface jets50
Motion of bulk nanobubbles driven by thermal Marangoni flow49
Role of particle-laden interfaces in shear-induced deformation of colloidal droplets49
Asymptotic flow states in turbulent viscoelastic Taylor–Couette flow: transition between states and commensurate scale interaction48
Decay rate of homogeneous isotropic turbulence laden with finite-size particles47
FLM volume 1007 Cover and Front matter47
JFM in the electronic age46
These things take time: the first 1000 volumes of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics46
Edge-driven collapse of fluid holes46
The impact of source fluctuations in a filling box with interior diffusive mixing45
Hanging droplets from liquid interfaces45
Shape of sessile drops at small contact angles44
A laboratory study of wave-induced drift under rotation43
Liquid states in horizontal plate-inserted slits43
Drag reduction in wall-bounded turbulence by synthetic jet sheets42
Transient and steady convection in two dimensions42
Attenuating transmitted infragravity waves by a small heaving body42
Investigations on the turbulentnon-turbulent interface in supersonic compressible plate turbulent boundary layer41
Direct numerical simulation of turbulent flow in a flexible pipe with imposed standing-wave vibration41
Fingering instability of self-similar radial flow of miscible fluids in a Hele-Shaw cell41
Dynamics of elongated bubbles in slightly inclined pipes with viscous fluids41
The interplay between bulk flow and boundary conditions on the distribution of microswimmers in channel flow41
Bio-inspired variable-stiffness flaps for hybrid flow control, tuned via reinforcement learning41
The influence of the shock-to-reshock time on the Richtmyer–Meshkov instability in reshock40
A thin-plate approximation for ocean wave interactions with an ice shelf40
Role of volatility and thermal properties in droplet spreading: a generalisation to Tanner's law40
Inundation, runup and flow velocity of wavemaker generated bores on a planar beach39
Adjoint-based linear sensitivity of a supersonic boundary layer to steady wall blowing–suction/heating–cooling39
Mechanisms and models of particle drag enhancements in turbulent environments39
Continuum dynamics of suspensions at low Reynolds number38
Bounds on dissipation in three-dimensional planar shear flows: reduction to two-dimensional problems38
Dynamics of a self-propelled compound droplet38
Feigenbaum universality in subcritical Taylor–Couette flow38
Consistent lattice Boltzmann model for reactive mixtures38
Turbulence ingestion noise generation in rotating blades38
Oscillatory flows in three-dimensional deformable microchannels37
On–off pumping for drag reduction in a turbulent channel flow37
Double-diffusive convection with gravitationally unstable temperature and concentration gradients in homogeneous and heterogeneous porous media37
Order–disorder transitions within deformable particle suspensions in planar Poiseuille flow37
Stabilising nonlinear travelling waves in pipe flow using time-delayed feedback37
Plate induced tones in installed supersonic jets36
The Rayleigh prolongation factor at small bubble to wall stand-off distances36
The interaction of multiple bubbles in a Hele-Shaw channel36
Energy, enstrophy and helicity transfers in polymeric turbulence36
Reduced representations of Rayleigh–Bénard flows via autoencoders35
Effect of fluid inertial torque on the rotational and orientational dynamics of tiny spheroidal particles in turbulent channel flow35
Linear stability of monopolar vortices over isolated topography35
Water entry of an elastic conical shell35
Elasto-inertial rectification of oscillatory flow in an elastic tube35
Prediction of energy harvesting efficiency through a wake–foil interaction model for oscillating foil arrays35
Scaling and mechanism of the propagation speed of the upstream turbulent front in pipe flow35
Microscopic salt exclusion dynamics of directional freezing in brine35
Buoyant variable viscosity fluid flow and instability in a vertical porous slab with imperfectly conducting boundaries35
Transient deformation of a viscoelastic capsule in a cross-slot microchannel: effects of inertia and membrane viscosity35
Flow past two rotationally oscillating cylinders34
Experimental measurement of the Prandtl–Meyer function in non-ideal supersonic flows34
Hydrodynamic coupling of a cilia–mucus system in Herschel–Bulkley flows34
Laminar flow over I-shaped dual-step cylinders34
Scale-by-scale non-equilibrium with Kolmogorov-like scalings in non-homogeneous stationary turbulence34
Linear and nonlinear interactions between stationary cross-flow instabilities and a smooth surface hump34
Oscillatory flow around a vertical circular cylinder placed in an open channel: coherent structures, sediment entrainment potential and drag forces34
A thermomechanical model for frost heave and subglacial frozen fringe33
Thermals from finite sources in stable and unstable environments33
Reduction of noise in cold and hot supersonic jets using active flow control guided by a genetic algorithm33
Predicting convection configurations in coupled fluid–porous systems33
Towards a finite-time singularity of the Navier–Stokes equations. Part 3. Maximal vorticity amplification33
On the algebraic stretching dynamics of variable-density mixing in shock–bubble interaction33
Optimal body force for heat transfer in turbulent vertical heated pipe flow33
Influence of relaxation time on the two-dimensional Kelvin–Helmholtz instability under dual-mode perturbations33
Compressibility effects on the secondary instabilities of the circular cylinder wake33
Upscale transfer of waves in one-dimensional rotating shallow water33
A classification of mode-1 internal solitary waves in a three-layer fluid32
Wave attenuation in drifting sea ice: a mechanistic model for observed decay profiles32
Hydrodynamic performance and scaling laws for a modelled wave-induced flapping-foil propulsor32
Log at first sight32
Liquid metal slug actuated by an unsteady magnetic field32
Wave turbulence in a rotating channel: numerical implementation and results32
Dynamics-preserving compression for modal flow analysis31
Wing sweep effects on laminar separated flows31
The influence of bandwidth on the energetics of intermediate to deep water laboratory breaking waves31
Nucleation effects on cavitation about a sphere31
Shape dynamics of nearly spherical, multicomponent vesicles under shear flow31
Hydroacoustic analysis of a marine propeller using large-eddy simulation and acoustic analogy31
Separation length scaling for dual-incident shock wave–turbulent boundary layer interactions with different shock wave distances31
Turbulent separations beneath semi-submerged bluff bodies with smooth and rough undersurfaces31
Prediction of flow and polymeric stresses in a viscoelastic turbulent channel flow using convolutional neural networks31
Conditional analysis on extreme wall shear stress and heat flux events in compressible turbulent boundary layers31
Gas-sheared falling liquid films beyond the absolute instability limit31
The role of Lagrangian drift in the geometry, kinematics and dynamics of surface waves31
Poiseuille flow of a concentrated suspension of squirmers31
Ill posedness in shallow multi-phase debris flow models – CORRIGENDUM30
An investigation of the secondary load cycle associated with wave scattering in severe wave–cylinder interactions30
Effects of a short splitter plate on the wake characteristics and vortex evolution of flow around a circular cylinder in proximity to a wall30
Two-dimensional turbulence over topography of varying roughness30
Vortex line entanglement in active Beltrami flows30
Electrophoretic trajectories of non-uniformly charged particles in viscoelastic fluids: the weak surface charge limit30
Direct numerical simulation of supersonic and hypersonic turbulent boundary layers at moderate-high Reynolds numbers and isothermal wall condition30
Atomisation of an acoustically levitated droplet: experimental observations of myriad complex phenomena30
Boundary-layer approach to the linear karren instability30
Searching for the log law in open channel flow30
Vortex ring connection to a free surface30
Bubble nucleation and jetting inside a millimetric droplet30
Effects of dilatation and turbulence on tangential strain rates in premixed hydrogen and iso-octane flames30
The dynamics of impinging plumes from a moving source30
Asymptotic predictions on the velocity gradient statistics in low-Reynolds-number random flows: onset of skewness, intermittency and alignments30
Large-eddy simulations of conical hypersonic turbulent boundary layers over cooled walls via volumetric rescaling method30
Instability of a weakly viscoelastic film flow on an oscillating inclined plane29
Aerodynamics and fluid–structure interaction of an airfoil with actively controlled flexible leeward surface29
FLM volume 963 Cover and Front matter29
Converging material with two bulges29
The limits of β-plane turbulence29
Electromagnetic field effect on a conducting liquid film flowing down an inclined or vertical plane29
Dynamics of rotating helices in a viscous fluid29
FLM volume 999 Cover and Front matter29
Second-order analysis of hypersonic boundary-layer stability29
FLM volume 1001 Cover and Front matter29
Evolution of convection in a layered porous medium29
A freely suspended robotic swimmer propelled by viscoelastic normal stresses29
Global drag reduction and local flow statistics in Taylor–Couette turbulence with dilute polymer additives29
Influence of the gas-phase Lewis number and thermocapillary stress on motion of a slowly evaporating droplet in Stokes flow29
Hydrodynamic response of an annular swirling liquid sheet surrounding a forced gas jet29
Breaking bubbles across multiple time scales in turbulence28
Asymmetry of motion: vortex rings crossing a density gradient28
Curved detonation equations with analysis and its applications28
Low-frequency wake modulation governs back-side particle deposition on cylinders28
Drag reduction utilizing a wall-attached ferrofluid film in turbulent channel flow28
Influence of immersed particles on the stability of the liquid–liquid interface in a two-layer channel flow28
A point vortex model for spike-type instability leading to rotating stall28
Three-dimensional dynamics of a pair of deformable bubbles rising initially in line. Part 2. Highly inertial regimes28
Pair statistics of oblate spheroids settling in a turbulent flow28
Floating active carpets drive transport and aggregation in aquatic ecosystems28
Non-locality of mean scalar transport in two-dimensional Rayleigh–Taylor instability using the macroscopic forcing method28
Aerosol deposition in mucus-lined ciliated airways28
Generalized Lagrangian heterogeneous multiscale modelling of complex fluids28
Atwood-number dependence of hydrodynamic instability driven by a strong shock wave28
Robust relation of streamwise velocity autocorrelation in atmospheric surface layers based on an autoregressive moving average model28
The onset of filamentation on vorticity interfaces in two-dimensional Euler flows28
Generalized Reynolds equation for microscale lubrication between eccentric circular cylinders based on kinetic theory28
New formulations for the mean wall-normal velocity and Reynolds shear stress in a turbulent boundary layer under zero pressure gradient28
Solute dispersion in pulsatile Casson fluid flow with exchange between phases using the extended Gill’s approach28
Studying propagating turbulent structures in the near wake of a sphere using Hilbert proper orthogonal decomposition28
Weakly nonlinear behaviour of transonic buffet on airfoils28
How does turbulence mix a stratified fluid?28
An almost subharmonic instability in the flow past rectangular cylinders28
Effect of orifice geometry on bubble dynamics and induced flow structures in quiescent fluids27
Mechanisms of wake asymmetry and secondary structures behind low aspect-ratio wall-mounted prisms27
Learning fluid physics from highly turbulent data using sparse physics-informed discovery of empirical relations (SPIDER)27
Spatial instability analysis and mode transition of a viscoelastic jet in a co-flowing gas stream27
Experimental study of bubble competition and spike competition in Richtmyer–Meshkov flows27
Spreading of a viscous drop after impact onto a spherical target27
Optimising subgrid-scale closures for spectral energy transfer in turbulent flows27
Mixing enhancement of a compressible jet over a convex wall27
Emergent rheotaxis of shape-changing swimmers in Poiseuille flow27
Effect of inhaled air temperature on mucus dynamics in the proximal airways26
Flow topology in the gap and wake of convex curved tandem cylinders26
Aquatic locomotion due to a flexible foil flapping in a perfect fluid26
Multi-scale method for the solution of the concentration distribution in a two-layered channel flow26
Trapping and leakage of heavy inertial particles in an unequal strength counter-rotating vortex pair26
Unsteady convective–diffusive transport in semicircular microchannels with irreversible wall reaction26
Nested travelling wave structures in elastoinertial turbulence26
Microstreaming induced by a micro-cantilever vibrating elliptically in a viscous fluid26
A model for the dissipation rate in linear unsteady flow through porous media26
Linear stability theory and molecular simulations of nanofilm dewetting with disjoining pressure, strong liquid–solid slip and thermal fluctuations26
Convective mesoscale turbulence at very low Prandtl numbers26
Active control of transition to turbulence in laminar separation bubbles26
Scaling analysis for the frequency of Ostwaldian and Newtonian bead-on-fibre flows26
A coherent composite approach for the continuous circular hydraulic jump and vortex structure26
Stability and bifurcation of dynamic contact lines in two dimensions26
Complex-network analysis of high-frequency combustion instability in a model single-element rocket engine combustor26
Slow-growth approximation for near-wall patch representation of wall-bounded turbulence26
Analysis of the choking condition of one-dimensional diabatic flows with wall friction26
A shear and elongational decomposition approach of the rate-of-deformation tensor for non-Newtonian flows with mixed kinematics26
Stratified horizontal convection26
Opposing-buoyancy mixed convection through and around arrays of heated cylinders26
Transition of solitary waves and undular bore from basin to channel with opposing current26
Fourier-based proper orthogonal decomposition of a turbulent round jet26
Attracting dynamical modes of highly elastic fibres settling under gravity in a viscous fluid26
Regime transitions in stratified shear flows: the link between horizontal and inclined ducts25
Elastohydrodynamic interactions in soft hydraulic knots25
Fake turbulence25
Spatial marching with subgrid-scale local exact coherent structures in non-uniformly curved channel flow25
Droplet evaporation in inert gases25
The skating of drops impacting over gas or vapour layers25
A decoupled mechanism of interface growth in single-mode hydrodynamic instabilities25
Emergence of lobed wakes during the sedimentation of spheres in viscoelastic fluids25
Manipulation of Richtmyer–Meshkov instability on a heavy–light interface via successive shocks25
On the turbulence modelling of waves breaking on a vertical pile25
Aerodynamic deformation and breakup of wall-attached droplets in axisymmetric stagnation airflow25
Pattern selection between two-dimensional Rayleigh–Bénard convection and electroconvection near electrochemical surfaces25
Role of streak secondary instabilities on free-stream turbulence-induced transition25
Droplet jumping by modulated electrowetting25
Evidence that uniform momentum zones originate from roughness sublayer structure interactions in fully rough channel turbulence25
Analysis and modelling of non-local eddy diffusivity for turbulent scalar flux25
Boundary layer transition in choked nozzles25
Particle segregation within bidisperse turbidity current evolution25
Understanding the effect of Prandtl number on momentum and scalar mixing rates in neutral and stably stratified flows using gradient field dynamics24
Shear flow over a surface containing a groove covered by an incompressible surfactant phase24
Bubble racing in a Hele-Shaw cell24
Scaling analysis and self-similarity near breakup of elasto-viscoplastic liquid threads under creeping flow24
The effects of surfactants on plunging breakers24
Zonal flows driven by libration in rotating spherical shells: the case of periodic characteristic paths24
Capillary lubrication of a spherical particle near a fluid interface24
Emergence of long-range correlations and thermal spectra in forced turbulence24
Water entry of cups and disks24
Coupled effects of viscosity contrast and phase separation in hydrodynamically stable radial Hele-Shaw flow24
A self-consistent numerical model of internal wave-induced mean flow oscillations in polar geometry24
Diffusio-osmotic corner flows24
Optimal growth in hypersonic flows over an inclined cone24
The transient spread of a circular liquid jet and hydraulic jump formation24
A generalised inner product-based wave scattering from an underwater source in a compressible ocean24
Intrinsic nucleation dynamics of cloud cavitation24
Macroscopic model for generalised Newtonian inertial two-phase flow in porous media24
Thermal convection in the internally heated sphere24
Shock attenuation of dense granular media23
Non-Newtonian and surfactant effects on the liquid plug rupture in an airway reopening model23
Measurement and analysis of sub-convective wall pressure fluctuations in turbulent boundary layer flows23
Cylinder flow and noise control by active base blowing23
Direct numerical simulation of 45° oblique flow past surface-mounted square cylinder23
Professor John Stewart Turner 11 January 1930 – 3 July 202223
Characteristic scales during the onset of radiatively driven convection: linear analysis and simulations23
Direct numerical simulations of non-coalescing floating bubbles: geometry and self-organisation23
Cavitation bubble dynamics inside a droplet suspended in a different host fluid23
On the clustering of low-aspect-ratio oblate spheroids settling in ambient fluid23
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